<div dir="ltr">I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global.<div>
<br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:delawen+osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen+osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female<br>
nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the<br>
attention of the whole community.<br>
<br>
Thanks all,<br>
<br>
-jeff<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Agreed. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important?</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">María.</div></div>
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